Sphenopalatine blocks in the treatment of pain in fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1420-1422

  Janzen, Victor D ^a   Scudds, Roger ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO; XYLOMETAZOLINE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FIBROMYALGIA; GANGLION; GANGLION BLOCK; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYALGIA; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; HUMANS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROMES; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030879547     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199710000-00023     Document Type: Article

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